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UN Official: Foster Peace Through SDGs
September 14, 2017
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has argued that the UN should view peacekeeping missions more comprehensively by pursuing the international organization's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a way to foster an environment of “sustainable peace.”
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UNESCO Pressures Vienna on Development Project
September 14, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee has added Vienna's historic center to its "List of World Heritage in Danger" due to a planned development project that the Committee says threatens the "outstanding universal value of the site."
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UNESCO Hunts for Education Data for SDGs
September 14, 2017
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics has published an article pushing countries around the world to gather comprehensive data from their education systems and send it to UN agencies in support of the international organization's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to education on and promotion of sustainable development.
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Analysis: US Will Still Exceed Climate Pledges
September 14, 2017
Raising the question of the value of the UN's Paris climate agreement in pushing action on "clean energy" investments, a report from Morgan Stanley predicts that the US will exceed pledges made by the Obama Administration on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris deal despite the Trump Administration's withdrawal from the agreement.
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Report Considers New Global Governance Structures
September 13, 2017
An extensive report from the Council on Foreign Relations examines how transnational institutions might sidestep the reassertion of nationalism in Western democracies to create a new order of global governance arising out of flexible structures influencing policy on human rights, the climate, the internet, and other global issues.